{"id":35374,"date":"2020-01-24T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=35374"},"modified":"2020-01-24T16:06:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T00:06:35","slug":"nikoleta-sekulovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/24\/nikoleta-sekulovic\/","title":{"rendered":"nikoleta sekulovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/24\/nikoleta-sekulovic\/nikoleta_sekulovic-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35381\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nikoleta_sekulovic-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"4992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nikoleta_sekulovic-1.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nikoleta_sekulovic-1-35x300.jpg 35w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh my word&#8230; this is the absolutely gorgeous work <em>{acrylic and graphite on canvas}<\/em> of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikoletasekulovic.com\/\">Nikoleta Sekulovic<\/a>. She was born in Rome, to a German mother and a Serbian father, and now lives in Madrid with her family. Not only do I love her work, but I also love that her entire portfolio site features her work AND her daughters running around while she works&#8230; a perfect example of a woman being an artist and a mother. Nikoleta creates large-scale portraits of women, and this is why:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8216;Every single woman is different; the way my models pose reflects a part of who they are, expressing their personality. There is no pretense, no trying to act out, they are simply themselves, and that\u2019s great. The way a woman thinks she should look or tries to conform to an ideal of beauty should not hold her back from being who she is.&#8217;\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Ah,<\/em> so beautiful! Also beautiful, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikoletasekulovic.com\/documentary\">this video of Nikoleta<\/a> talking about her practice, motherhood, and the drive that pushes her to create.<\/p>\n<h5><em>ps. From January 28th until February 22nd some of her work can be seen at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccahossack.com\/exhibitions\/278\/overview\/\">Rebecca Hossack Gallery<\/a> in London.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my word&#8230; this is the absolutely gorgeous work {acrylic and graphite on canvas} of\u00a0Nikoleta Sekulovic. She was born in Rome, to a German mother and a Serbian father, and now lives in Madrid with her family. Not only do I love her work, but I also love that her entire portfolio site features her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[308,3,112,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35374"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35393,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35374\/revisions\/35393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}